One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEI have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me – shapes and ideas so near to me – so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn’t occurred to me to put them down.
More Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes
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I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at – not copy it.
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You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.
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Anyone who doesn’t feel the crosses simply doesn’t get that country.
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One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
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It was all so far away – there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased.
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I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
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I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life – and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.
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I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.
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I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.
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It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it.
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I hate flowers – I paint them because they’re cheaper than models and they don’t move.
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I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me – shapes and ideas so near to me – so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn’t occurred to me to put them down.
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I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something – anything I had done – than anyone else I know.
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To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.
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Sun-bleached bones were most wonderful against the blue – that blue that will always be there as it is now after all man’s destruction is finished.
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